It is? Huntin' nekkid wimmen, hoo-ey! They call this adult entertainment, but I keep mumbling 'arrested development.' My natural antipathy, nevertheless, is tempered by consideration of the probable action/reaction at play.
The question isn't why men (and women) would do such a thing, but why wouldn't they? Given our cultural currents and the dependable human propensity to do the worst thing possible, we might have predicted it.
Between the onslaught of porn, which endows women with all the humanity and self-esteem of a blow-up doll - and daily reminders of men's sexual inadequacy via the morning spam-athon for male-enhancing products - is it any wonder some men respond symbolically by paint-balling Bambi? Not an excuse, mind you, just an objective observation.
In the same week that Bambi made headlines, meanwhile, what else was all over the news? The new Bravo show, "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," wherein five gay men buff up a style-challenged hetero dude.
The featured men are predictably uncouth losers who need help attracting or keeping women, and who better to teach them? Gay guys get all the girly-girls: "Love the hair, love the shoes, lovelovelove the show! What's not to love about funny gay men ridiculing remote-controlling Barca-lizards whose idea of style is matching denim?
"You never want to match your denim," says the clothes vamp. "You'll look like some crazy farmer."
Or maybe some stupid hunter who thinks shooting Bambi is a sport? Stop or I'll scream!
You don't get much further - from one extreme to another - than gays guys poofing butch men and butch men poofing naked women. It's a riot, but maybe with hope, luck and time, they'll cancel each other out.
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Kathleen Parker's recent column about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction contained an incorrect date for John Kerry's comments about that subject to the U.S. Senate. The comments were recorded in the Congressional Record Oct. 10, 1998.